J. Alan Harrell

Jul 11, 2024 | mondaq.com | J. Alan Harrell |David Topping |Sophie Gray |Blake Donewar

When the United States Supreme Court closed out its October 2023 term earlier this month, it handed down several decisions critical to the role of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other federal administrative agencies and regulators. Most notably, the Supreme Court: Overturned Chevron v. NRDC, a landmark administrative deference casethat directed courts to defer to regulators' interpretation of federal statutes.

Jul 10, 2024 | lexology.com | J. Alan Harrell |David Topping |Sophie Gray |Steven Levine |Blake Donewar

When the United States Supreme Court closed out its October 2023 term earlier this month, it handed down several decisions critical to the role of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other federal administrative agencies and regulators. Most notably, the Supreme Court:Overturned Chevron v. NRDC, a landmark administrative deference casethat directed courts to defer to regulators’ interpretation of federal statutes.

Apr 4, 2024 | lexology.com | J. Alan Harrell |Mark E. Beutelschies |Asa H. Toney

ESG, or Environmental, Social, and Governance, is in part a new take on sustainable investing. ESG provides investors with the means to use nonfinancial metrics to value business entities. Like the classic spaghetti western film, “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly,” whose characters were hard to pin down, ESG has good, bad and ugly qualities in the eyes of many. Some companies have accepted ESG concepts and restructured their business models and how they use resources.